{"id":545821,"date":"2026-07-27T07:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T07:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/545821\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T07:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T07:18:08","slug":"graffiti-of-sculptor-dame-barbara-hepworth-appears-in-st-ives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/545821\/","title":{"rendered":"Graffiti of sculptor Dame Barbara Hepworth appears in St Ives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The mural appeared on Tuesday on the former Palais de Danse building, which is being converted into a community art space and is close to the Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The former cinema and dance hall was bought by Hepworth in 1961 to use as a studio.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Her most famous sculpture, Single Form, which stands outside the United Nations building in New York, was created there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hepworth, originally from Wakefield in West Yorkshire, died in May 1975 at the age of 72 in an accidental fire at her studio. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The building was gifted to Tate by her estate in 2015. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The mural appeared on Tuesday on the former Palais de Danse building, which is being converted into a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":545822,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-545821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/545822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}